How do you clean your fake plants?

Question

do you take them outside and shake the dust off? do you spray them with a hose? I have a ficas tree and a palm tree that gets sooo dusty!

Answer 1

If they are silk, I do the tedious task of wiping down every leaf.  I have a silk palm tree and corn plant.  Sorry, they were expensive and they look great when they are clean.  Here's what I do about every 8 weeks:

I get a bucket of warm water with a capful of Fabuloso (smells great)

and I use a synthetic cloth.  I wet it in the bucket and wipe till it is somewhat dry and dusty.  Then I rinse it in clean water under the tap and I repeat from the bucket to the plant.  

I turn on some music, careful on the stepstool and love the result when  am done.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

I have a hand held shower sprayer, so I put them in the tub, and wash them off with that.  Let them drip dry, then return to use.  You could vacuum them, or spray them with a hose.  Sunlight seems to mess with the color, so don't leave them outside in the sun to dry.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

I saw on a TV program that the way to clean dried or fake flowers, is to put them in a bag with salt in it, seal the bag around the stems with the heads in the bag, and then shake the bag vigourously for a few minutes, then throw away the salt.  Make sure the bag is pretty robust and has no holes, though.

Answer 4

Put them in the shower. If they are really big then i spray them with the water hose but all of mine go in the shower now